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Source: (consider it) Thread: AS: Shipmates Expecting 2006
jlg

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quote:
Originally posted by babybear:
Jen, I think this is what people have been thinking about.

quote:
Originally posted by Flausa:
so they've scheduled me to go in to hospital Friday afternoon to start the induction.

Hopefully, this means a Cresswell baby this weekend.
Thanks, bb, that explains it.
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Alan Cresswell

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quote:
Originally posted by chukovsky:
Any news on the little mad Cresswell?

Does this help?

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Janine

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Something To Expect

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ChrisT

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Firstly our heartiest (and heartliest) congratulations to the esteemed Dr Cresswell and Flausa on the arrival of David "Wee Wan" James.

Lily and I would also like to make a smaller (as in 6lb 8oz) announcement: Reuben John. He arrived at 2.52pm on Sunday 14th May with no small amount of pomp and ceremony, and is a joy and a treasure.

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Emma Louise

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Wow!!! congratulations [Smile] [Smile] [Smile] [Yipee]
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Ann

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Congratulations Chris and Lily [Yipee]

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quote:
Originally posted by ChrisT:
...on Sunday 14th May with no small amount of pomp and ceremony, and is a joy and a treasure.

Fantastic day to be born!

Congratulations.

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Adrienne
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Many congratulations! [Smile]
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Congratulations - he is very sweet! [Axe murder]

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Vikki Pollard
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!!!

[Tear]

I've finished having babies but I'll be broody till I'm at least 85, I'm sure!

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Moo

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ChrisT, congratulations!

That's wonderful.

Moo

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Moo

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quote:
Originally posted by Vikki Pollard:
I've finished having babies but I'll be broody till I'm at least 85, I'm sure!

Having grandchildren is great fun. You enjoy them for a while, and then you can leave.

Moo

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Jen.

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Brilliant ChrisT and Lilly.

Fab!

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Left at the Altar

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Congratulations, ChrisT. So cute. [Smile]

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Alan Cresswell

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Many congratulations Chris and Lily. 14th May was only one day before our due date, but David was a bit too happy to stay put.

My unbiased ( [Biased] ) opinion is that Reuben is cute, but not as cute as David.

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Congratulations to Chris, Lily, and all of their children. Blessing on this little one.
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neandergirl

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Welcome Reuben John and congrats to your parents!

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Bronwyn
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Congratulations Lily, and ChrisT Beautiful baby.

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Congratulations ChrisT & Lily and little RJ.

Reuben is a lovely name!

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Vikki Pollard
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quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
quote:
Originally posted by Vikki Pollard:
I've finished having babies but I'll be broody till I'm at least 85, I'm sure!

Having grandchildren is great fun. You enjoy them for a while, and then you can leave.

Moo

Yes - but grandchildren aren't necessarily a given in the case of one of my daughters (and you never know anyway, do you?). And anyway it'd be a bit selfish to make 'em have babies on my account! [Biased]

[ 29. May 2006, 10:55: Message edited by: Vikki Pollard ]

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Moth

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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Many congratulations Chris and Lily. 14th May was only one day before our due date, but David was a bit too happy to stay put.

My unbiased ( [Biased] ) opinion is that Reuben is cute, but not as cute as David.

There is an old saying: "There is only one beautiful baby in the world, and every mother has it"!

My baby turned 16 today. *Sigh* he's still cute, but where did all those years go?

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welsh dragon

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And congratulations Chris, Lily & family! (I thought you'd been a bit quiet recently!)
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dolphy

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Many congrats to Chris and Lily (at least we know why you have not been around recently [Biased] )

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Jillyb
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I go away for a few days and new little people arrive left right and centre [Biased] Many congrats Beth and Alan and Chris and Lily - what lovely news [Big Grin]

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Derf
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Congratulations Chris, Lily and Reuben [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin]
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Congratulations to the Taylors and the Cresswells on your little ones. [Smile]

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Vikki Pollard
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I remember taking it really seriously when people told me to treasure them while they're little cos it goes so quickly...

It's true! I don'thave children now - I have adults!

And strangest of all, I'm still the same age! Inside, of course - inside. [Biased]

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Mamacita

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Congratulations, ChrisT [so good to hear from you] and Lily on the birth of Reuben. He's beautiful!

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Keren-Happuch

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Congratulations to Cresswells and Chris and Lily. [Big Grin]

I thought I should come and say hello as Gumby and I have discovered that we're expecting a little one in January. At the moment I am feeling too hormonal and yuck to be that excited [Help] , but your pictures have made me feel more hopeful! [Yipee]

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Congratulations

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Congratulations ChrisT and Lily! He's beautiful!

Many hugs to Flausa and Alan! I'll be looking forward to meeting darling David James the next time you get on this side of the pond!

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Ronja
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Congratulations to ChrisT, Lily and Keren-Happuch!

Stick it out Keren, I felt really yucky too in the beginning but it's only been getting better since.

/Light, expecting in September

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Flausa

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Congratualations ChrisT and Lily. Glad to hear the good news of Reuben's safe arrival!

Congratulations also to Keren-Happuch and TGG. Trust me on this, the yucky days are well worth it!

David and I are now home (and very happy to be so after such a long stint in the hospital). Just to share briefly, he was under a great deal of stress during labour, so I ended up having to have a C-Section. Thankfully, we chose to do so at a stage still early enough on (13 hours after the induction process started) that they were able to do a spinal/epidural, so I was awake and alert for the delivery. Just hopefully as a note of encouragement to Bronwyn, this was still an amazing experience, and both Alan and I were able to see David almost immediately upon delivery. Alan was able to hold him after he was cleaned up, and I was able to hold him once we left the operating theatre (about half an hour). And a huge upside is that he's not a conehead!

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Alan Cresswell

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I've got to say that the c-section could have been worse. At least we had a local anaesthetic and were both there and conscious (despite almost 24h without sleep by that stage, the adrenalin was keeping me very much awake, the lack of sleep didn't kick in 'til long after we knew everything was OK) and heard David cry as he came out, even if we couldn't see anything behind a sheet screening off the actual surgery. I could hold Flausa's shoulder (hands weren't available due to assorted drips and monitoring gear), and got to hold David and show him to Flausa within minutes of the birth. There was a possibility of a real emergency, which would have left Flausa under a general anaesthetic and me pacing uselessly in some waiting room (the time I spent waiting while they sorted out the anaesthetic was bad enough).

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Anselmina
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Many congratulations, Alan and Flausa! Very happy news.

And to Lily and ChrisT, too, for their wonderful event!

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ChrisT

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Aww, shucks, y'all are just too kind [Smile]

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Annie P

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Congratulations Chris and Lily, hope everything is going well! [Big Grin]

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Congratulations to all the new parents, and good luck as you embark on the next stage of your lives.

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Bronwyn
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Thanks Dr and Flausa, I have gone over the ceasor in my mind, trying not to think of all the things which could be not be ideal(baby sick, needing oxygen and rushed off, the thetre staff not allowing breast feeding as I was told can happen, going into labor and well having to have an emergency one so being asleep, Sean not being there, Sean having a cold and them not letting him in, the dragon who yells at me when I take patients over for day proceedures being on duty and insisting I do this or that. Them treating me poorly as I work in an area of the hospital which is to them a joke, me getting stressed about the whole thing and not being able to cope)

I have on more rational days we have been able to make a plan and well if I have a choice I would love our birth to go as well as yours, I have decided on a few things like getting them to lower the drape(they offer this where I am) so I can see baby born. Blood doesn't worry me too much, and I HAVE seen a couple of the ops before as a student. Also asking no one to say if we have a boy or girl until Sean does or I do.

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quote:
Originally posted by Bronwyn:
Thanks Dr and Flausa, I have gone over the ceasor in my mind, trying not to think of all the things which could be not be ideal ...

I had a caesarian with my last (an emergency rather than planned one, but not such an emergency that it had to be a general anaesthetic). True, a lot can go wrong, but most of the time none of the yucky things you describe do actually happen (well, I don't know about the dragons who work in your hospital of course!). So ISTMT there's no point in worrying about them. It's starting to look likely that Baby Tea #2 will arrive the same way; not my first choice but not something I'm going to allow to spoil the rest of the waiting period.

You know when you go on a roller-coaster there's a moment when the car reaches the top, it stops clicking, isn't moving at all, and you know you'd better just relax and enjoy the ride 'cos there's nothing else you can do? The moment after you've signed the consent form is a bit like that...

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holly

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Congratulations to Alan, Flausa, ChrisT and lily.
Both babies look absolutely beautiful.

love

Holly & JonoT

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Paul W.

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Wow, only just spotted this (after Holly mis-posted on the Cresswells' thread). Congratulations Chris and Lily. [Smile] [Yipee]

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holly

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quote:
Originally posted by Paul W.:
Wow, only just spotted this (after Holly mis-posted on the Cresswells' thread). Congratulations Chris and Lily. [Smile] [Yipee]

Paul W

Thanks for bringing that up Paul [Razz]

holly xxx

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Flausa

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Holly's obviously had one double too many. [Biased]
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comet

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(major yippees to all with happy news!)

I haven't been in the family way for almost 5 years, but with chasee#1 I had an energency C-Secion after 95 hours of labor. I was also conscious at the surgery.

I have had two VBACs since then, so it's possible.

try not to fret too much, Bronwyn, you'll just cause yourself too much stress. be easy. A Ceasarian is not any less of a magical moment than a VB.

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One of the things that was drummed into us during the ante-natal classes is that the husband has a very definitely role in all of this, he is the buffer between the woman and the medical establishment. He is the one who will stick up for his wife, and protect her when she is at her most vulernable.

Wny not have a discussion with Sean about this idea and see what he thinks. Could he be your St George and protect you from the dragon?

Neither of my children had their first feed in theatre. It must have been about 30 mins after their births that they fed. It didn't seem to have any negative effect on getting feeding established. If anything it might have helped as they were both rather hungry by the time they were put to the breast.

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quote:
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Neither of my children had their first feed in theatre. It must have been about 30 mins after their births that they fed. It didn't seem to have any negative effect on getting feeding established. If anything it might have helped as they were both rather hungry by the time they were put to the breast.

Neither did the Ratling - it wouldn't have been possible or safe in theatre, I think, since both my arms were occupied with drips and I was lying on an open-sided bench type of thing. He could easily have rolled off or got tangled up in equipment. After the birth I had to be checked for damage and then stitched, so he certainly didn't feed right away.

In Recovery, though, I was put in a bed with proper sides and they immediately brought the Ratling for 'skin to skin', when he rooted for the breast and fed. I think that could have been as much as 30 minutes after he was born. As far as I know there's been no harm done, and he never showed any disinclination for feeding.

I'd try not to stress too much about it, Bronwyn (yeah, I know how much that kind of advice helps! [Biased] ). At least your visit to theatre is planned rather than unexpected, so you can discuss your plans with Sean and prime the staff too, before you get distracted.

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Flausa

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Can any of the Scottish mums tell me about this tradition of people pressing coins into baby's hand upon their first meeting. I had several people tell me at church today, "it's not a gift ... it's tradition." Any idea where this has come from?
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Originally posted by Flausa:
Can any of the Scottish mums tell me about this tradition of people pressing coins into baby's hand upon their first meeting. I had several people tell me at church today, "it's not a gift ... it's tradition." Any idea where this has come from?

I'm not Scottish, but my family's from Cumbria, and this custom is common especially in the northern part of the county, up by the Wall and along the Border.

It's called "Hanselling." Basically, it's for luck, and also establishes how good the child will be with money. If the baby holds onto the coin, he or she will always be good with money. If they drop it, they will will not be.

Also if it's a silver coin (which it won't be, due to the sad adulteration of the coin of the realm), it will help with keeping the Little Folk away from the baby.

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Originally posted by rosamundi:
It's called "Hanselling."

A 'hansel' is another word for 'gift' in Scots.

When my little ones were babies they didn't get money put in their hands, but the money was put into the pram. It was usually a few silver coloured coins, occasionally a pound coin. This was given in addition to any baby gifts.

The first Monday of the New Year was a public holiday over much of Scotland, and that was called Hansel Day. It was the custom for the employers to give a gift of some silver on that day.

One website suggests that 'inaugural gift' might be a better translation. Another Scottish tradition is to put a hansel in a purse that is given as a gift. The idea is that the person will always have money in their purse.

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